Miss Maeli Goncalves Farias

Maeli Farias is currently a Research Associate on the MMPPF project at the university of Bristol. She studied International Relations as an undergraduate at Damas College (Recife /Brazil) and she also holds a MSc degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Catholic University of Leuven – KU Leuven in Belgium (2017-2019). She is mainly interested in the anthropological perspective of narratives and everyday life experience to address common issues surrounding the current migration processes, such as racism, discrimination, and inequalities.  After her master, Maeli worked for 3 years in the humanitarian response to the Venezuelan migration inflow to Brazil. Maeli worked in refugee camps on the border between Brazil and Venezuela and worked at UNHCR as a Protection Assistant working mainly with the local government to guarantee the rights of asylum seekers in Manaus/Brazil.